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Why Blacklisting Spammers Is A Bad Idea

Posted by timothy on from the painting-with-machine-gun dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "For the last two months, an eternity in Internet time, I was unable to reach -- and to contribute to -- Smart Mobs, the collective blogging effort around the next social revolution initiated by Howard Rheingold. Why that? Because an unknown customer of Verio decided it was a spamming site and asked the company to blacklist the site. Verio complied -- probably without even checking it -- and my problems started. It took me dozens of e-mails and phone calls and two visits to the headquarters of my french ISP, Noos, to fix the situation. More about this horror story is available here."

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  1. i'm a loser by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    a-yah

  2. why slashdot is a bad idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    si teh vary ghey

  3. In Soviet Russia, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Spammers blacklist YOU!

    1. Re:In Soviet Russia, by Kyn · · Score: -1, Troll

      Wouldn't that be a good thing though?

  4. why ignoring stuff that matters is not a very good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    idea.

    well, there's the notion of how many phonIE fauxking shillbot billyonerrors do we need anyway?

    then there's the more insidious notion that pretending/ignoring, will make yOUR problems seem to disappear.

    there's never been a better time to investigate the creators' newclear power, & planet/population rescue initiatives.

    this stuff is unbreakable, wwworks on several (more than 3) dimensions, & there's never a liesense feechurn/cover charge to restrict yOUR progress.

    the daze of the greed/fear/ego based felonious payper liesense ?pr? ?firm? hypenosys stock markup fraud execrable, is WANing into coolapps/the abyss, at the (increasing) speed of right.

    talk about pressure? those fauxking foulcurrs on wall street of deceit/capitollist hill, are having a whoreabull time attempting to hide the news (buy use of phonIE scriptdead ?pr? ?firm? hypenosys) of their felonious payper liesense billyonerrors' latest softwar gangster hostage taking attempts, &/or the adolescent dictator megalomania of the georgewellian fuddites/walking dead perpetraitors of the greed/fear/ego based life0cide against humankind.

    there's a real risk of overheating (peacing off) the main processor. you don't want that?

    for each of the creators' innocents harmed, there is a badtoll that must/will be repaid by you/US, as the aforementioned walking dead will not be available to make reparations, when the big flash occurs.

    the lights are coming up now. consultations are in order. you know where to look/who to trust? see you there? tell 'em robbIE?

  5. More about my horror story? by ellem · · Score: 0, Troll

    get a life.

    Running out of Guinness is a horror story

    Getting ass raped by Iraqis is a horror story

    not being about to get to some crap site is NOT a horror story.

    what a douche'

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